Preservation and the weapon that killed Adonalsium

[Ethan_sedai he/him]

 think I know who knows, or rather, knew, where the remains of the weapon is: Preservation!

in secret history, Preservation says 

"I needed a sign. Something he couldn't change. A sign of the weapon I'd buried. The boiling point of water, I think. Maybe it's freezing point? But what if the units change over the years? I needed something that would be remembered always. Something they'll immediately recognize. Sixteen."

a sign of the weapon, and sixteen, being one of those signs, and how many Shards it split Adonalsium into, is too much of a coincidence.

Also, Ruin and Preservation created Scadrial, so they could design aspects of it in special ways. If he had buried it at the core of the planet, no one would be able to get to it, not on the Physical Realm, not without Either Ruin or Preservation noticing, and they wouldn't be able to get to it in the Cognitive Realm, as the investiture in metal makes it so that Shards cannot touch or influence it and probably are unable to get past it, so Shards would not be able to get to the core of the planet, because the inner and outer cores would be made out of metal. In addition, Ruin and Preservation are so heavily invested in the planet that they can't leave, so that would make them Guards that can't leave their posts. 

The only thing I can't figure out is what the boiling/freezing point of water has to do with the weapon of opposition of Adonalsium.

What do you guys think?

[Calderis he/him]

I think you've already got the responses to this in the other thread.

[Ethan_sedai he/him]

yes, but I wanted to post it as a thread of its own, so that I could see what other people thought

 

[Arkadious he/him]

It's not what you think it is. We know that Adonalsium was split by the now shards and it was also said that there was a force that opposed Adonalsium. Sanderson considered a group of people to be a "force", implying the original shardholders. Also, the weapon that Preservation was talking about was the Atium cache which would be burned by the Atium Mistings, denying Ruin's means to end the world.

The sixteen part is also a reference to the number of shards split from Adonalsium and the number of metals in Allomancy. The number 16 is a constant in Sanderson's Cosmere and shouldn't really be thought about too hard. If there really was a weapon like that in the cosmere, it would be too much of an investiture beacon and probably would've already been found by now.

And finally, in regards to the boiling point of water, that wouldn't work either as that can change depending on atmospheric pressure, as atmospheric pressure changes depending on high up you are. Also unit changing is also a problem. Preservation realised this and decided on 16, as it was the cosmere constant--something He thought they should recognise, but at that time His mind was also pretty much gone.

If I can find the interviews which I got this information from, I'll edit this and post them below.

Edited September 11, 2017 by Arkadious

[Ethan_sedai he/him]

it would be an investiture beacon, but it is in the metal core of a planet made , where metal is highly invested, so that might disguise anything that is there, especially if it has been used up.

Also, I'm pretty sure that he thought of it before his mind was gone, because he made sixteen the number of metals.

[Ethan_sedai he/him]

but not 100% sure, though.

[Fezzik]

@ethan_sedai, as someone told me once upon a forever ago, now I pass the torch to you. It is good forum etiquette to not double post. Instead of posting another comment after one of your own, use the "edit post" button and add your new insights to the old post.